William mather



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2 Shee tS ShBet W. MATHER. APPARATUS FOR TREATING TEXTILE FABRICS. NO.'402,757.

Patented May '7, 1889.

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W. MATH ER. APPARATUS FOR TREATING'TEXTILE FABRICS. No. 402,757. Patented May 7, 1889.

- 7 Jan KM 61/ A UNITED I WILLIAM MATHER, QFSALFORD IRON WORKS, MANCHESTER, COUNTY OF "LANCASTER, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS "FOR TREATING TExTl'Lstlishios.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,757, dated May 7, 1889,

Application filed January 31, 1889. Serial No. 298,228- (No mpd'el.) Pat-entad in England November 24, 1886, No. 15,343.

- To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MATHER, en-

' gineer, a citizen of England, residing at Salford Iron Works, Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Appagatus for ,TreatingTextileMaterialswithLiquids,Gases, or Vapors, (which has been partly patented to me in Great Britain by Patent No. 15,343,

is dated November 24, 1886,) of; which the fol lowing isa specification.

- In my patent dated August 4, 1885, No. 323,819, and in my later patent, dated J anuary 5, 1886, No. 333,876, I described apparatus for treating textile "materials with liquids, gases, or vapors forvarious purposes, such as soaking, boiling, or dyeing. That apparatus consisted of a keir or vessel like a horizontal cylindrical boiler closed at either end or at ,so each end b'y'fa'wedge sluice-door, and having in it rails to receive trucks containing the material to be treated, and pipes for su'pply, f discharge, and circulation of the fluids to the action of which the material in the trucks" 'was subjected: I described the trucks'to be of lattice construction, giving passage forthe fluids through their bottoms and sides.-'- I'also in my later patent, No. 333,876, described ach truck as being made with anginternaL perforated chamber which was -put in communication with a longitudinal pipe in the.

lower part of the keir by means of a spring junction-pipe attached to the bottom of the truck, which junction-pipe, when the truck wasrun into position in thekeir, came into coincidence with an aperture. in the upper side of the longitudinal pipe.-

My present invention relates to a construction of each truck with close'sides andwith a perforated floor having under it a c .amber, which is put in communication with the keirpipe in the same manner as the internal chambers of the trucks previously described. By dispensing with the internal chamber I leave the whole capacity of the truck free to receive the yarns or fabrics that areto be treated. I also simplify and cheapen the constr ction of the truck, and by the use of awfloorgerforated all over I provide for the uniform pas- 5o sage of the fluids employed'eithe'r up through the material in the-truck whenthe fluids are supplied from below, or down through the according to my present invention, referring 1 to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the keir with two trucks placed init. Fig. 2 is a transverse section.

The keir A, which is in form like a horizontal cylindrical boiler, may be made of greater or less length, according to the number of trucks that are to be'accommodated in it. Practically, I find it is conveniently made toaccommodate. two trucks, as shown in Fig.

1, and to have a wedge sluice-door, B, at one end only, the other end being permanently closed. The apparatus for opening and tightly closing the door B forms the subjectof another application for Letters Patent of even date with the present, and therefore I need not here describe that apparatus.

Each truck 0 consists of a sh 'll, of iron H or steel p1ate,,preferabygalvanized orvother- Wise coated .toprotject'thematerial in the truck from being-stained by'oxide. The ends of the=truck-.;are'verticaL-the'. bottom is fiat,

and'the sides are bent' toacur -vature concentrio With'that of the keii.vA, but of smaller radius, soas to leave a spaceof several inches between them and the'interiohsurface of the j keir; The top of the truck is open. From the center of the bottom of the truck depends the spring 'junction pipemE, ,which, as described in my formerypatentyNo 333,876, formsa communication fromth'e fixed pipe F through the bottom of the truck. A littleabove the bottom plate 'of the truck i's'fixd a distributing --plate, -Gr, having through it numerous perforations, and on, this plate islaid an open floor or grating .of transverse timbers H and longitudinal timbers K, on which are placed the materials to be treated.

The truck is mounted on four wheels, L, which run on rails M, laid in the bottomot' the keir in line with external rails, so that when the sluice-door B is raised folding rails N can be let down to join the internal to the external rails, and the trucks can be run into the keiror out. of it. Inthe bottom of the keir, besides the central pipe, F,'there are steam-pipes S, for heating, and perforated steam-pipes" S, for blowing steam into the keir. At the top of the keir are sprinklers P, by which liquid can. be distributed over the contents of the trucks. These, as well as the pipe F, are connected to the suction and discharge of a rotary or other pump by branches providedvwith valves, so that liquid can be sent to the sprinklers P and drawn off from the pipe F or run off by a blow-off pipe Q, or that liquid can be sent through the pipe F up through the materials in the trucks, so as to overflow and escape by the pipe I Having thus described the nature of my invention and the best means I know of carrying it out in practice, I claim In apparatus for treating textile materials with liquids, gases, or vapors, consisting of a keir containing trucks charged with the ma- 2o terials, a truck made as a shell of metal plate with open top, vertical ends, imperforate curved sides, and a perforated distributing bottom plate with a compartment below it 'having a springfjunction pipe, substantially 2 5 as described. 7

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 12th day of J anu- W'. MATHER.

'ary, A. 1). L889.

Witnesses; GEO. J. B. FRANKLIN, 17 Gracechurch Street, London, E. C.

JNO. P. M. MILLARD, Clerk to Messrs. Abel & Imra g, Consulting Engineers and Patent Agents, 28 South ampton Buildings, London, W .0. 

